Friendly Fire 9 raises over 1 million euros on Twitch, but cannot break its old record

With Friendly Fire 9, a charity event by well-known streamers took place over the weekend. They have now shown how much money they have raised. They broke the million mark, but they could not surpass the previous years.

What is Friendly Fire anyway? Friendly Fire is a charity action: Once a year, well-known Twitch streamers and YouTubers come together and raise money for a good cause.

This time, the stream took place on December 2, 2023, from 3 PM on Gronkh’s Twitch channel. Meanwhile, they revealed how much money has been raised.

Million mark reached, but past years not surpassed

Who participated? The lineup in 2023 remained unchanged, consisting of Erik “Gronkh” Range, the “PietSmiet” team, Tatjana “Pandorya” Werth, Pascal “MrMoreGame” Rothkegel, Florian “Der Heider” Heider, Artur “fisHC0p” Niemczuk, and Max “PhunkRoyal” Ensikat.

How much money was donated? On Twitter, the organizers posted the final amount. A total of 1,021,417 Euros were raised, just surpassing the million mark. However, they were unable to reach the amounts of previous years:

• In 2022, a total of 1,087,542 Euros were collected.
• In 2021, 1,283,704 Euros were raised for a good cause through the stream.

These figures reflect the pure revenue from the Twitch stream. In previous years, additional funds were raised through the sale of various merchandise items.

To which institutions does the money go? Friendly Fire 9 supports again a variety of different charitable institutions, which we have listed here. The money is collected in cooperation with the donation platform betterplace.org.

• Hacker School
• Blue Ribbon Deutschland
• Sentana Stiftung 
• SOS Humanity e.V.
• Kinderhilfe e.V.
• krisenchat
• Bahnhofsmission Deutschland e.V.
• Friendly Fire Nothilfefond

What happens next? The organizers have already announced that there will be another “Friendly Fire” stream next year. Friendly Fire 10 will take place on December 7, 2024. However, no further information has been disclosed yet.

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